Health Literacy The Peoples Understanding Of Health...

Health literacy is the peoples’ understanding of the information about health and health care. As well as how the information is applied to their lives including making decisions and representing it. Health literacy is essential to people’s lives as it form people’s health including the safety and quality of health care. For Australia, Health literacy is a significant issue. Health information and systems are becoming progressively more difficult and it is hard to understand. Similar to many established countries, approximately 60 per cent of adult Australians individually have low health literacy. Therefore, they will be not able to efficiently have a choice or say anything when making healthcare decisions. Individual’s low health literacy is related to higher use of health services as a result there are low levels of knowledge among consumers and poorer health outcomes. 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